Historical place profile
Pegai/Antipatris/Arethousa?
A series of settlements and fortifications localized in and around the mound known today as Tel Afek/Râs el-'Ain in Israel. The mound itself is dominated today by the remains of an Ottoman fort, built on Crusader foundations, but an excavated Roman-era odeon can also be seen.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:687996
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:687996
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement
- Coordinates
- 32.105237, 34.930974
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A series of settlements and fortifications localized in and around the mound known today as Tel Afek/Râs el-'Ain in Israel. The mound itself is dominated today by the remains of an Ottoman fort, built on Crusader foundations, but an excavated Roman-era odeon can also be seen.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 70 F1 Pegai/Antipatris/Arethousa?
Source and reuse
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Research path
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